Best Sandbox games on PC
Sandbox games use open-ended worlds and systems that let players choose how to pursue objectives. Activities may include exploration, building, crafting, survival, combat, or multiplayer play.
- Open-ended world exploration
- Freedom to choose activities
- Interacting gameplay systems
Related: Open World, Survival, Crafting, Multiplayer
3,300 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
3,300 games
AI filter: hide games with AI content
Customize
Fields of Mistria
Pixel-art farming RPG about rebuilding a village through farming and magic
96% positive
35K reviews
Steep™
Open-world winter sports action across the Alps and Alaska
82% positive
35K reviews
Demo Against the Storm
Roguelite city builder about adapting settlements to endless storms
94% positive
34K reviews
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
Open-world survival RPG with crafting, magic, and dragon hunting
79% positive
34K reviews
The Sims™ 3
Open-world life simulation with customizable people, homes, and stories
85% positive
34K reviews
Wartales
Open-world tactical RPG about managing a medieval mercenary band
85% positive
33K reviews
Wreckfest
Full-contact racing game built around crashes and vehicle destruction
86% positive
33K reviews
Bloons TD Battles
Competitive tower defense duels where players send bloons at rivals
90% positive
Free
Demo Paint the Town Red
First-person voxel brawler with improvised weapons and destructible enemies
96% positive
33K reviews
IdleOn - The Incremental MMO
Pixel-art incremental MMO where eleven characters work while you're away
80% positive
Free
Kingdoms and Castles
Medieval city builder with modular castles and Viking raids
93% positive
32K reviews
Demo Half Sword
Physics-based medieval combat simulator with mouse-controlled weapons and permanent death
64% positive
32K reviews
Anno 1800
Industrial-era city builder focused on production chains and global trade
80% positive
31K reviews
Dead Frontier 2
Online third-person survival horror with scarce ammo and zombie scavenging
70% positive
Free
Generation Zero®
Open-world survival shooter about guerrilla warfare against deadly machines
75% positive
31K reviews
Lost Light
Multiplayer extraction shooter where escaping determines what loot you keep
55% positive
Free
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
Science-themed incremental clicker tracing life from cells to space
89% positive
Free
Dwarf Fortress
Dwarven colony simulation where deep systems turn failure into history
94% positive
31K reviews
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Open-world space survival sandbox with freeform ship and base building
78% positive
30K reviews
Universe Sandbox
Physics-based space sandbox for building and destroying planetary systems
96% positive
30K reviews
Demo Hello Neighbor
First-person stealth horror against a neighbor who learns your tactics
88% positive
30K reviews
Need for Speed™ Payback
Open-world arcade racing with car classes, chases, and revenge
85% positive
30K reviews
The Escapists 2
Prison-break strategy sandbox built around crafting and cooperative escape plans
91% positive
30K reviews
Europa Universalis V
Historical grand strategy spanning centuries of nation-building and alternate history
61% positive
30K reviews